About the Authors

Martin Heni

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Caroline Ketterer

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Robert Wagner

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Katarzyna Linder

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Anja Böhm

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Silke A. Herzberg-Schäfer

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Fausto Machicao

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany

Klaus-Peter Knoch

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, University Hospital and Medical School Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Dresden, Germany

Andreas Fritsche

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine, Nutritional and Preventive Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Harald Staiger

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Häring

hans-ulrich.haering@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany

Michele Solimena

Affiliation Molecular Diabetology, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, University Hospital and Medical School Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH KPK AF HS HUH MS. Performed the experiments: MH CK RW KL AB SHS FM AF. Analyzed the data: MH KK AF HS MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM. Wrote the paper: MH KK HS AF MS.